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Tag: Alan Durham

West Palm Beach is preparing to outsource its Community Redevelopment Agency, and CRA director Kim Briesemeister has already told her staff that a private company she runs in Broward County will bid for the contract.

Sources with knowledge of the situation told The Palm Beach Post that Briesemeister also told the staff she has the support of city commissioners and she …

When Mayor Jeri Muoio ran for office she pledged to hire an “economic czar” who would make West Palm Beach “open for business.”

But just a year after Alan Durham was lured away from Gwinnett County, Ga as the city’s first director of economic development, Muoio announced on Tuesday that she will restructure the city’s economic development plan without Durham, whose role in the city was downplayed by Muoio in a …

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This is a letter that the Northend Coalition of Neighborhoods sent to Alan Durham, the city’s director of economic development, after Durham said “community opposition” is a problem in West Palm Beach.

Dear Mr. Durham:

I read yesterday your comments in the Post regarding economic development in the city of West Palm Beach. …

Kimberly Mitchell urged other commissioners Monday to approve a referendum in March to ask residents to give an exemption to the five-story downtown height limit for a waterfront hotel, despite Mayor Jeri Muoio’s warning that it would not provide officials enough time to convince voters.

“When I first ran in 2002, I got into the race in January and my election was in March. For whatever reason I was able to …

Since campaigning for mayor more than a year ago, Jeri Muoio promised that she would hire an economic czar who would have an office next to her and would be responsible for bringing much needed industry to the city.

On Monday she made good on her promise, hiring Alan R. Durham of Atlanta to serve as Executive Director of Economic Development. Muoio dropped the unpopular czar title, a phrase that commissioners …